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Message: [QUOTE="Battler, post: 3059198, member: 8509"] I respect Gould and his opinion, but he doesn't appreciate how mediocre we've been since Wayne first left the club and it's going to take a while for that rot to be cleared. It's a mindset that has gradually been instilled in the playing group by that post-Wayne generation of players (Hunt, Macca, etc). None of those blokes are leaders and we don't have Locky, Hodges, or Parker around to steer them around the field. The club gambled on them big time and it didn't work. I suspect the storm will suffer a similar fate when Smith retires although the NRL can't really let them wallow in mediocrity for too long otherwise they'll end up like the Titans and be heading for the abyss due to their fan base consisting of, for the most part, plastic bandwagoners. If I wanted to go at him hard I'd point out his success with Penrith and the fact that I could have probably coached that rorters side he won the comp with + the NSW side that had Johns etc in it. What about the storm playing out of the second biggest city in Australia with no pressure because, despite sustained success for 20 years, no one cares about RL in the city? As a guy in his mid-20s I can tell you that heaps of people my age are obsessed with Melbourne for whatever reason (I think it’s a dump compared to Sydney and Brisbane) and plan to move there or have done so. The storm have a massive leg up with young kids in that regard. They also theoretically have exclusive access to the entire Victorian region for jrs, it’s their fault that they have camped themselves in qld and don’t bother to promote the game in their own state. [/QUOTE]

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